Large deviations for non-uniformly expanding maps (Q867041)

Here large deviations bounds are obtained for nonuniformly expanding (NUE) maps with non-flat singularities or criticalities and for partially hyperbolic nonuniformly expanding (PHNUE) attracting sets. Namely, for a given continuous function, its space average with respect to a physical measure is compared with the time averages along orbits of the map. It is shown that the Lebesgue measure of the points whose time averages stay away from the space average tends to zero exponentially fast with the number of iterates involved. As by-products of the main results, escape rates from subsets of the basins of physical measures for these types of maps are deduced. Several nontrivial classes of maps (quadratic maps, infinite-modal maps, piecewise smooth one-dimensional maps, nonuniformly expanding local diffeomorphisms, Viana maps, partially hyperbolic nonuniformly expanding diffeomorphisms) to which the obtained results are applicable are given. On the whole, the paper extends some of the known large deviation results for uniformly hyperbolic systems to NUE and PHNUE systems and strengthens, in a definite sense, the idea that nonuniformly hyperbolic systems are chaotic: they satisfy a version of the classical large deviation result for i.i.d. random variables.